World
Tuberculosis Day
24 March 2020
Now ask yourself, how will they produce an umbrella vaccine for this most terrible disease in a few months, or a year, when 4,000 TB victims still die every day after 138 years?
On 24 March 2020, World Tuberculosis Day, the World Hell Organization (WHO?) reminded everyone that ‘actually, tuberculosis (TB) is the deadliest infectious disease in the world’.
In 1882, when the bacteria that causes tuberculosis was first identified, TB was killing one out of every seven people living in the United States and Europe.
- Today, in 2020, tuberculosis kills more people than any other infectious disease, according to the United Nations (UN).
- More than 10 million people developed active tuberculosis disease in 2019.
- Around 1.5 million people died from the bacterial infection in 2018 alone.
- Over 4,000 people die of tuberculosis every day.
- Tuberculosis is contagious. It is caused by bacteria that spread from person to person through microscopic droplets released into the air. This can happen when someone with the untreated, active form of tuberculosis coughs, speaks, sneezes, spits, laughs or sings.
- The continued spread of drug-resistant forms of TB threatens to reverse the progress made against the epidemic over the last century.
- To date, no umbrella vaccine for TB exists.
DYI
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